The New Yorker
WILDE AT HEART
Stephen Fry's lifelong bond with the wittiest—and the most tortured—of writers.
10+ min |
November 24, 2025
The New Yorker
I BITE BACK
Best practices require that I state at the outset that I do not possess a law degree, paralegal training, formal or informal knowledge of the laws of this city, county, state, or country, or any familiarity whatsoever with the traditions of conduct associated with Judeo-Christian law.
3 min |
November 17, 2025
The New Yorker
UNTIL TOMORROW
Solvej Balle's philosophical time-loop saga.
8 min |
November 17, 2025
The New Yorker
MYSTERY MAN
How Rian Johnson became an Agatha Christie for the Netflix age.
10+ min |
November 17, 2025
The New Yorker
UNDER THE INFLUENCE
Laura Loomer has the President's ear. Who has hers?
10+ min |
November 17, 2025
The New Yorker
THE NEW COAST PAUL YOON
This happened after the war.
10+ min |
November 17, 2025
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ART OF THE REAL
Robert Rauschenberg's transformative energy.
10+ min |
November 17, 2025
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HARD MODE
Rosalía's intense, expansive new album.
5 min |
November 17, 2025
The New Yorker
MOVING THE DIAL
The comic genius who pushed early TV further than it could go.
10+ min |
November 17, 2025
The New Yorker
BAD DADS
\"Sentimental Value,\" \"Jay Kelly.\"
6 min |
November 17, 2025
The New Yorker
Hannah Goldfield on Anthony Bourdain's "Don't Eat Before Reading This"
I’m not being facetious when I say that I remember exactly where I was when I first became aware of Anthony Bourdain. It was the summer of 2002, two years after he published “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,” a seminal and unsparing account of life as a chef in restaurant kitchens. I was fifteen, and on vacation with a friend and her family, on Long Island. My friend’s father was reading the paperback and shared aloud one of the dirty secrets in the book, which we all took, immediately, as gospel: one should never order fish on a Monday.
2 min |
November 17, 2025
The New Yorker
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS
David Byrne's songs and choreography of earnest alienation.
10+ min |
November 17, 2025
The New Yorker
TRANSITIONS
A father reckons with his child's transformation, and with his own.
10+ min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
THE BOARDS THERE SHE IS
Doors open when you're Miss America. For instance, did you know that the famously hundred-and-twofloor Empire State Building actually has a not so famous hundred-and-third?
3 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
Ed Caesar on Nick Paumgarten's "Up and Then Down"
The shortest magazine pitch of Nick Paumgarten’s life actually took place in an elevator, which the writer was sharing with an elevator-phobic editor, and consisted of a single word:
3 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
MISSING MOLLUSKS DEPT NATURAL RECRUIT
A fleet of kayaks left the south shore of Staten Island recently in search of oysters. Their destinations were a series of breakwaters a few hundred yards offshore.
3 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
Pam Tanowitz's Pastoral, Ailey Does Joni Mitchell
In the dreary month of January, summer makes a brief but welcome appearance via Pam Tanowitz’s “Pastoral” (Rose Theatre; Jan. 11-13). It’s a bucolic work, a peaceable kingdom of serene, sometimes quirky dances, set within a landscape of vibrantly colored fabric panels by the artist Sarah Crowner. Dancers move with bracing clarity as Beethoven's “Pastoral” Symphony wafts across Caroline Shaw’s musical collage, which also suggests the buzzing of insects, bird calls, rain.
1 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
Tallis Scholars Mass, Star Pianists
England, the insult goes, is “a land without music.” Of course, where there are people, there is music—but it’s true that, for a century or two, English composers played mostly in the minor leagues. New York Philharmonic, conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, at David Geffen Hall, showcases two works, both from 1910, that helped to change that.
1 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
A Shakespeare Tale, a Ping-Pong Champ
There will be music in the frosty air, starting with songs by Stephen Schwartz in Wicked: For Good (Nov. 24), the sequel to last year’s Wicked:
2 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
Lorde, Clipse, Sudan Archives
There's a little something for everyone sprinkled across this winter's slate of shows in contemporary music. Those looking for ambience should catch the sound-design pioneer Suzanne Ciani at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity, where the accomplished composer will improvise on her modular synthesizer inside the grand cathedral (Dec. 6).
2 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
YOUTHFUL CONVICTIONS
At ninety, Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley still sound vital.
5 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
TABLEAU VIVANT
The surprising endurance of Martha Stewart's \"Entertaining.\"
7 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
BLING DEPT.THE MOBSTER ON THE CEILING
The theft of two tiaras and a crown, among other jewels, from the Louvre last month got some Brooklynites recalling the time, almost seventy-five years ago, when two gem-encrusted crowns were swiped right off the heads of the baby Jesus and his mother in an Italian Renaissance-style basilica in Dyker Heights.
3 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
OPEN MIND
The case that A.I. is thinking.
10+ min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
MOTHER OF MEN LAUREN GROFF
There are men in my house, too many men, I am being driven mad by the men who are always in my house.
10+ min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
CAGE MATCH
How forty-three monkeys united animal-rights activists and the right.
10+ min |
November 10, 2025
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THE PLAYER KING
Anthony Hopkins looks back.
10+ min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
LAST HARVEST
Georgi Gospodinov's new novel probes what dies when your father does.
8 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
Mozart's Treasures, Indigenous Painting
This season, several storied institutions are looking toward fashion for a winter pick-me-up.
2 min |
November 10, 2025
The New Yorker
THE DOCTOR'S PLAN
My plan worked. A liquid injected into the veins of children—yes, children, unwilling, screaming, crying children—to prevent them from contracting communicable diseases. Hate me if you want to. I never asked for your forgiveness. When I was just a boy, I watched my parents die before my eyes. Polio. I vowed to get my revenge. And I didn't care who I helped or how many lives I saved along the way.
3 min |